Egypt
Michael C. Carlos Museum
- The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy' At Carlos Museum
Access Atlanta (Catherine Fox) The mud-brown figure wrapped in yards of linen lies curled on his side, skull cradled by a headrest. He might be mistaken for a George Segal sculpture or a victim at Pompeii frozen in the ash. This man, however, lived thousands...
- Podcast: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy
Michael C. Carlos Museum iTunes required. In September of this year, the Carlos Museum will open the exhibition Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy, which will focus attention on a 4,000 year old mummy that was purchased for...
- Ramesses I Mummy
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/149295A very short piece from the Question and Answer section on the Arizona Daily Times web page, about the value of DNA testing mummies:"Question: The Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta had possession of a number...
- Rare Old Kingdom Mummy
A rarely seen Egyptian mummy from the Old Kingdom is set to go on display at the Michael Carlos Museum. The mummy is the oldest in the western hemisphere and one of less than ten known to exist....
- Who's Out
With the advent of tomography, CT scans and DNA very little is left private. The naked bodies of ancient king's lay for the most part in the lands where they lived but some journey after their dead. Leaving Egypt 140 years ago to house in a Niagara...
Egypt
Exhibition: Life and Death in the Pyramid Age
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Acquired from excavations at the sacred site of Abydos in Middle Egypt by Emory Theology Professor, Rev. William A. Shelton in 1920, this mummy is the oldest Egyptian mummy in the Western Hemisphere and one of no more than half a dozen known to exist in the world.
Current examinations being undertaken at Emory Hospital and in the Carlos Museum’s conservation lab promise to reveal much about the little understood origins of mummification in Egypt. No other mummy of this early date has been investigated using modern scientific procedures such as CT-scanning, radiocarbon dating, blood typing, and spectroscopic analysis.
The exhibition will also place the mummy within the context of ancient Egypt's practice of mummification, burial, and the cult of the dead, as well as exploring the social and political changes that marked the end of the Pyramid Age.
- The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy' At Carlos Museum
Access Atlanta (Catherine Fox) The mud-brown figure wrapped in yards of linen lies curled on his side, skull cradled by a headrest. He might be mistaken for a George Segal sculpture or a victim at Pompeii frozen in the ash. This man, however, lived thousands...
- Podcast: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy
Michael C. Carlos Museum iTunes required. In September of this year, the Carlos Museum will open the exhibition Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy, which will focus attention on a 4,000 year old mummy that was purchased for...
- Ramesses I Mummy
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/149295A very short piece from the Question and Answer section on the Arizona Daily Times web page, about the value of DNA testing mummies:"Question: The Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta had possession of a number...
- Rare Old Kingdom Mummy
A rarely seen Egyptian mummy from the Old Kingdom is set to go on display at the Michael Carlos Museum. The mummy is the oldest in the western hemisphere and one of less than ten known to exist....
- Who's Out
With the advent of tomography, CT scans and DNA very little is left private. The naked bodies of ancient king's lay for the most part in the lands where they lived but some journey after their dead. Leaving Egypt 140 years ago to house in a Niagara...